Hugging Face Co-founder Thom Wolf Reflects on Wild Ride After Nvidia Deal
_philschmid · x · 2026-09-03
Hugging Face co-founder Thom Wolf reacted to the acquisition news, recalling the "wild ride" since founding the company in 2016 as a tiny team of underdogs nobody expected to have massive impact. He also noted Julien Chaumond's old joke that "code will be a subset of ML" turned out to be true.
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